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Trumpian threat to democracy raises stakes for 2018 elections
February 15, 2018The American people face a crisis of governance and threat to democracy unlike any in our history. The stakes couldn’t be higher in the outcome of the 2018 elections.
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“Israel in Egypt”: A Handel oratorio propagandizes for colonialism and war
February 15, 2018The context for this problematic work, subject to pointed discussion on musical, historical, political, theological and territorial grounds, has to be more transparent. Vague references to the generalized global exile and refugee experience simply looks like...
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Tell Congress to squash Trump’s tip theft rule
February 14, 2018Trump’s Labor Secretary announced a proposed rule that would allow restaurant owners to pocket the tips of millions of tipped workers.
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Do we need prisons? Abolitionists ask us to think about that
February 13, 2018“Prisons do not disappear social problems,” says world-renowned activist Angela Davis, “they disappear human beings."
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Is there a cure for the cancer of Trumpism?
February 12, 2018“There is a cancer on the Presidency,” John Dean famously told Richard Nixon in the throes of the Watergate crisis. The same can be said today.
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